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What an education these cars give... How much I've learned by having to do, and it's only been simple stuff so far... I did a search in the archives and a guy named Kris Kuckowicz was doing what I was doing (well, he was changing a tire) and jacking up the rear driver's side and heard a popping noise. Granted, I haven't yet lowered the back of the car off the jack stands, but the left rear was slightly saggier than the right (which looked OK). I'm hoping this is my problem... What do you folks think, and is this a complicated thing to do? I'm sure there's a Bentley process for it but I'm away from my book and as I mentioned before, I had no idea there was actually something inside those front & rear beams... That sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach is starting to go away... Well, I can hope... Here's what the suggestion was: >>>The noise you heard was probably your torsion bar slipping from the spines. If the bar slides back at all (toward the tranny) it can lose contact with enough of the splines that keep it in place. The bars are under great tension and when they slip out -BANG!<<< Thanks again for the help... Aaron ===== -------------------------------------------- 1971 FI AT Squareback http://www.tiserves.com/VW/ vw_variant71@yahoo.com -------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org